The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 123

The sexton crept out very quickly, pushed the empty chest into the water and went to his house, where he gave Little Klaus a bushel of money.

Who acts: sexton · What happens: creep out, push, go, give · To what, where: empty chest, water, house, bushel, Little Klaus

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sexton), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pushed	punct
8	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chest	det
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chest	amod
11	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushed	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushed	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 gave	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	parataxis
24	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Klaus	amod
25	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bushel	det
27	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 money	case
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bushel	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep out	past	the sexton				out, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	past	the sexton not said here	the empty chest		the water		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme into water=Destination
3	go	past	the sexton not said here			sexton's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	give	past	sexton	a bushel of money	Little Klaus			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Recipient bushel=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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